Gaius Publius: IPCC Releases Climate Report — First Thoughts
The latest IPCC report says we are cooking our collective goose, and hardly anyone seems to react.
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Read more...Michael Hudson: Naked Capitalism – The Best Daily Paper
Naked Capitalism is the best news source….for independent thinkers.
Read more...Brexit: EU-UK Talks Collapse, Disorderly Exit Virtually Certain
Bad Brexit news just got worse.
Read more...Rethinking AI Through the Politics of 1968
All the initiatives that want to make AI ethical seem to think it’s about adding something i.e. ethics, instead of about revealing the value-laden-ness at every level of computation, right down to the mathematics.
Read more...Hooray! Met Our Second Fundraising Target Pronto, on to the Third: Supporting the Comments Section
On to the next critical goal of our fundraiser: support for maintaining the high quality of the comments section.
Read more...Links 10/13/18
Clive: Naked Capitalism – Your Ammunition in the War for Information
What can we do to change the balance of power? Information is our best weapon.
Read more...Marshall Auerback: A Full Employment Economy? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Why Trump’s trade deals could wind up being a negative for employment.
Read more...Money, the Shape of Law, MMT, and Aesthetics
How the evolution of Western metaphysics repressed chartalist ideas that are the foundation of MMT.
Read more...Brexit and the Age of Incoherence
How Brexit is triggering a major political crisis in the UK.
Read more...Matt Stoller: Naked Capitalism – Your Weapon Against Strongmen and Strawmen
How Naked Capitalism works for you.
Read more...Ending the Evil of Student Loans
A set of proposals on how to reduce the damage done by the overhang of student loans.
Read more...Is the Tide Turning on Regulating Facebook and Google?
The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google.
Read more...Mr. Market’s Hissy Fit May Be Over….For Now
Puzzling out the markets have changed, and not changed, since the crisis.
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